Group Exhibition: Emerging Artists Show - Art Collector

Sabbia Gallery is pleased to present an extraordinary new talent Yusuké Takemura. Since graduating in 2006 from Kurashiki University, Japan, he has since completed his Masters in Studio Art at the University of Sydney. Awarded the annual Sabbia Gallery Exhibition Award for Ausglass in 2011, this talented artist promises to be someone to watch. Yusuké possesses a unique skill of being able to carve into his fragile blown glass structures, creating cut outs that allow light through the vessel and thus creating reflections of the forms under light. The glass is finely ground and highly polished to create a strong delineation between the edge of the glass and the body of the form. His work references the fragility of nature, history of form and the way light transmits through the organic sculptures.

'The presence of clear glass represents the remains from the past and the emergence of new beginnings. These significant events are defined by the forms structure and the meticulously cut holes. These elements create an optical illusion, as the glass appears to intertwine and twist in on itself from afar. This symbolises how we disregard history, even though it is clear that the world is undergoing environmental changes.'